Inference Comprehension 2

Full-page texts and 10-mark inference questions at advanced 11+ level.

Written forYear 5, Summer

FormatOnline reader, any device. Child works in an exercise book alongside.

£39 one child · open until the end of exam season

50 texts in the book
Original and classic passages, written or adapted for the book
Full answer key, independently re-checked question by question

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How this book is used in our course

English books are worked in short daily sessions rather than one long sitting. For vocabulary, the child covers the meaning, says it aloud, then checks; words that are missed go on a card for the week. For comprehension and cloze, the child attempts the passage under a loose time, then marks against the key and rewrites any answer that lost marks.

Where it sits in the series

Previous book in the series: Book 25, Vocabulary 3 & 4 Final Puzzle Book
Next book in the series: Book 27, Shuffled Sentences 3

Look inside

What's inside English Mastery 26

Five real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 10 sample pages are in the viewer.

Contents

Fifty full-page texts, Silver to Platinum: the hardest comprehension in the English series.

Original stories written for the series sit beside Twain’s Glorious Whitewasher, Jerome’s Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture and Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost, with non-fiction from volcanoes to Mary Seacole. Ten one-mark inference questions on each. Where Inference Comprehension 1 trained the skill on short drills, this book applies it to the full-page texts and advanced questions of scholarship papers.

Inference question types

Each kind of inference question, and what to hunt for in each.

Feelings and mood: actions, body language, speech, weather. Character and relationships: uniforms, tools, the names people use. Where and when: objects, sounds, light, food, clothes, money. Why: what happened just before. What has happened: the results left behind. What happens next: plans and warnings. Word meaning, language and imagery. A child who knows the type of question knows where in the passage to look.

Fiction 1 · Silver

The Lost Property Office: "Every object is the end of somebody’s journey. Read it properly, and it will tell you whose."

Leah helps her Auntie Bisi in the office beneath Platform 1, where the shelves of umbrellas shiver each time a train rumbles overhead. Every object on the shelves is a set of clues: sand in a bag, a ticket from Seabrook Bay. The passage is itself a lesson in inference, and the ten questions ask the child to do what Auntie Bisi does.

Fiction 24 · Platinum

Platinum: The Chess Clock, at the level of the hardest independent school papers.

"The hall at Kingsmere College smelled of radiator dust and nerves." A county under-twelves final, a narrator who is the only girl left, and an opponent with one weakness everyone knows: he thinks too long. The text is longer, the narrator is not telling the whole truth, and the questions ask what she is planning before she says it.

Answers

Every answer gives the clue, how we know, what to accept and what not to, and the question type.

"1. The passing trains above make the whole room shake. Clue: every few minutes the shelves of umbrellas shivered. Do not accept: the office is cold. Shelves cannot really shiver; the word shows them trembling. LANGUAGE AND IMAGERY." A parent marks like an examiner, and a child learns which type of inference costs them marks.

£39 one child · open until the end of exam season

All 50 texts in the book follow the pattern shown here.

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